The four kitchens featured here all share some common ingredients. The homeowners spent considerable time thinking about all they wanted in their new kitchens, prioritizing their wish lists, and seeing it all come together on paper first. And all reaped the rewards of working with a hard-working, effective, and efficient team: a creative kitchen designer, architects with a love of the historic as well as the modern, reputable and respected cabinet manufacturers, and a contractor that masters the art and science of construction management.